MTOR and status epilepticus: Additionally, rapid and transient mTOR activation was observed in the hippocampus and neocortical tissue after status epilepticus was induced and was followed by a subsequent increase in mTOR during epileptogenesis and continued post-epilepsy onset within several rodent models (Buckmaster et al., 2009; Zeng et al., 2009; Huang et al., 2010).